Fifty Key Theatre Designers
1st Edition
Published on 21. November 2023
346 pages
978-1-000-99274-8 (ISBN)
Description
Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, costume, lighting, and projection designers since the Renaissance.
Developments of scenic design are traced from the introduction of perspective painting to create illusionistic scenery in Renaissance Italy to the use of digital projection in the twenty-first century. The book also discusses important landmarks in the evolution of costume and lighting design, as well as the introduction of film and video technology to stage design. A broad range of work is explored, including opera, dance, Broadway and West End commercial theatre, avant-garde performance, and even Olympic spectacles. Each chapter features one designer, including basic biographical information and a discussion of that artist's style, aesthetics, and contributions. Designers covered include Sebastiano Serlio, Ferdinando Bibiena, Richard Wagner, Adolphe Appia, and Edward Gordon Craig, amongst many other notable individuals. Each chapter also includes references to other significant designers with similar aesthetics or who made similarly important contributions to the development of that aspect of scenography.
This book is ideal for undergraduates and graduates of scenography, theatrical design, and theatre history.
Developments of scenic design are traced from the introduction of perspective painting to create illusionistic scenery in Renaissance Italy to the use of digital projection in the twenty-first century. The book also discusses important landmarks in the evolution of costume and lighting design, as well as the introduction of film and video technology to stage design. A broad range of work is explored, including opera, dance, Broadway and West End commercial theatre, avant-garde performance, and even Olympic spectacles. Each chapter features one designer, including basic biographical information and a discussion of that artist's style, aesthetics, and contributions. Designers covered include Sebastiano Serlio, Ferdinando Bibiena, Richard Wagner, Adolphe Appia, and Edward Gordon Craig, amongst many other notable individuals. Each chapter also includes references to other significant designers with similar aesthetics or who made similarly important contributions to the development of that aspect of scenography.
This book is ideal for undergraduates and graduates of scenography, theatrical design, and theatre history.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
28 Halftones, color; 24 Halftones, black and white; 52 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-99274-8 (9781000992748)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Arnold Aronson
Fifty Key Theatre Designers
Book
11/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€220.40
Shipment within 15-20 days
Arnold Aronson
Fifty Key Theatre Designers
Book
11/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€87.10
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
Arnold Aronson is Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of several books on design including Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design and The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography. He is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Scenography and was a founding co-editor of the journal Theatre and Performance Design. He has a long history with the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space and served as General Commissioner in 2007.
Content
1. Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554[?]) 2. Inigo Jones (1573-1652) 3. Giacomo Torelli (1608-1678) 4. Ferdinando Bibiena (1657-1743) 5. Philippe-Jacques De Loutherbourg (1740-1812) 6. Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri (1782-1868) 7. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) 8. Andre Antoine (1858-1943) 9. Viktor Simov (1858-1935) 10. Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) 11. Leon Bakst (1866-1924) and Alexandre Benois (1870-1960) 12. Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) 13. Joseph Urban (1872-1933) 14. Alexandra Exter (1882-1949) 15. Emil Pirchan (1884-1957) 16. Vlastislav Hofman (1884-1964) 17. Robert Edmond Jones (1887-1954) 18. Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) 19. Liubov Popova (1889-1924) 20. Traugott Mueller (1895-1944) 21. Caspar Neher (1897-1962) 22. Boris Aronson (1898-1980) 23. Nikolai Okhlopkov (1900-1967) 24. Jo Mielziner (1901-1976) 25. Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) 26. Jean Rosenthal (1912-1969) 27. Tanya Moiseiwitsch (1914-2003) 28. Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) 29. Jocelyn Herbert (1917-2003) 30 Wieland Wagner (1917-1966) 31. Josef Svoboda (1920-2002) 32. Ralph Koltai (1924-2018) 33. John Bury (1925-2000) 34. Ming Cho Lee (1930-2020) 35. Sally Jacobs (1932-2020) 36. David Borovsky (1934-2006) 37. Jerzy Gurawski (1935-2022) 38. Jennifer Tipton (1937-) 39. Robert Wilson (1941-) 40. Helio Eichbauer (1941-2018) 41. Richard Peduzzi (1943-) 42. William Dudley (1947-) 43. Jim Clayburgh (1949-) 44. Wendall K. Harrington (1950-) 45. Anna Viebrock (1951-) 46. Liu Xinglin (1953-) 47. George Tsypin (1954-) 48. William Kentridge (1955-) 49. Bert Neumann (1960-2015) 50. Franc Aleu (1966-)
